Provides a comprehensive description of the producer and foreign trade price indexes. Topics covered include what the indexes measure, and how they are produced. Some insight is provided into the kinds of problems encountered by the ABS in compiling these indexes and how the problems are handled. Other topics include the nature and purpose of each of the indexes, their composition and weighting patterns, data sources, price collection, index calculation and maintenance of samples.

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